Conciliarism was a reform movement in the 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century Catholic Church which held that supreme authority in the Church resided with an Ecumenical council, apart from, or even against, the pope. The movement emerged in response to the Great Western Schism between rival popes in Rome and Avignon. The schism inspired the summoning of...
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in the Roman Catholic church, a theory that a general council of the church has greater authority than the pope and may, if necessary, depose him. ... [12 related articles]
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Theory of Catholic Church government developed in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, during and after the Great Schism (1378-1417, when rival popes had seats in Rome and Avignon), claiming...
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